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physical contact. He can travel by land, by water and by air. Of the difficulties of these, he first overcame the simplest as was to have been expected; he next fell to devising one kind and another of water craft, and progressed to navigation of the seas and now, after centuries of ineffective struggle, he is beginning the application of his slowly accumulated knowledge to the conquest of the air. Of the three media, the air alone exists over neither specially constructed highways nor restriction of journeys such as limit or make costly all efficient transportation of journeys on land and water. 

Human flight opens the sky to man as a new road, and because it is a road of all obstructions and leads everywhere affording the shortest distance to any place, it offers to man the prospect of unlimited freedom. The airplane spans continents like railroads, it bridges seas like ships, goes over mountains and forests like birds, and promises to quicken and simplify the problems of transportation. Berlin and London eventually will each be a day from New York and the Pacific will be crossed as readily as the Atlantic. Such ease of communication will go far to break down the barriers of racial and national antipathy. By promoting contacts of peoples the airplane will foster prejudice only against WAR. 

The airplane is far and away the most promising of aircraft insofar as any present vision can discern. The sppeds [[speeds]] ultimately attained with this type of aircraft will undoubtedly be tremendously high when judged by present standards, a thousand miles per hour